Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-28 Thread John Soros
running vanilla 2.6.25 kernel, on a gentoo system. Thank you for helping debug this problem, is there any more info I can give to help this process? John On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:38:56 -0700 "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is weird. So, to recap, your timezone

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-28 Thread John Soros
yep, i get exactly the same: plan9: % date Thu Aug 28 23:40:17 CET 2008 Linux host: $ date Thu Aug 28 20:06:02 CEST 2008 even the time difference seems to be the same. strange! rgds John On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:24:32 -0500 "Alex Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2

Re: [9fans] Where to find plan9

2008-09-09 Thread John Waters
9fans.net is unreachable from Riyadh.. but then again a lot of places are unreacable from Riyadh. :( John On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > google should be enough... > > http://9fans.net should be the result

Re: [9fans] Happy Birthday, Ed Wood

2008-10-10 Thread John Waters
I will wear one of my wife's angora sweaters in commemoration of this great man's birthday. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Chad Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (posthumous birthday, unfortunately) > > BornEdward Davis Wood > October 10, 1924(1924-10-10) > Poughkeepsie, New York > > >

Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions

2008-10-24 Thread John Stalker
handled gracefully somehow. That is: ALL: non-greedy operators, > generalized assertions, counted repetitions, character classes CAN be > processed using the fast algorithm. Why then we don't have it? I once > wrote a program in python and was pretty happy to have non-greedy >

Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions

2008-10-24 Thread John Stalker
nobody knows how to implement them in subexponential time, but it hasn't been proved to be impossible. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions

2008-10-26 Thread John Stalker
27;t be me, then it needs to be done in a way that doesn't break anything, like when UNIX switched from basic to extended regular expressions and added a -e option to grep. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] punched cards live

2008-11-03 Thread John DeGood
It's the ACPI Secure Computing Initiative: fixed input format == no buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Long live Herman Hollerith! ron minnich wrote: > This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this > signature must contain a trailing > blank character.)" > > So where do we get the

Re: [9fans] Questions about plan9.

2008-11-05 Thread John Waters
The regulars on that group spend their days either playing bingo at the community center, chasing kids off their yard with a broom, or posting to that USENET group. :) On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Nolan Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Thanks alot, people in comp.os.plan9 are much mor

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-08 Thread John Barham
>>It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard. > > that's what's needed when heavy things run out of fuel. Even as a potential substitute for ftp webdav is a farce. Speaking from personal experience, the amount of XML you need to generate for a directory listing is at least 20 times the size of the e

Re: [9fans] yes, comcast really *does* suck

2008-11-10 Thread John Waters
Here in Saudi Arabia, most ISPs are happy to provide what I like to call "five sevens" service. I think that it would be awesome to have a net connection stable enough to run a smtp or http server. Then again I think it would be nice to have an ISP where I don't have to run "pull" 3 or 4 times in o

[9fans] Minimalist cpu hardware (was: 9grid)

2008-11-11 Thread John Barham
uld also be the basis for a nice plan 9 cpu cluster. Any recommendations? John

Re: [9fans] Minimalist cpu hardware (was: 9grid)

2008-11-12 Thread John Barham
I'm envisioning something w/ more horsepower, in the core 2 or athlon 64 x2 class, but in a comparably sized form-factor. John

Re: [9fans] those funny gnu guys

2008-11-14 Thread John Barham
2.0 wisdom of crowds at work! John

Re: [9fans] Books on plan 9

2008-11-15 Thread John Waters
What I did was have Nemo's book and a number of the papers printed and bound for $40 US. Swing by your local Popcopy and have one of the apathetic and condescending staff do the same. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Nolan Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I was wondering if there are any bo

Re: [9fans] plan9 now officially not the OS with the ugliest GUI anymore

2008-11-19 Thread John Waters
I don't think that there is a darn thing wrong with rio, its the Audi of GUIs On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jack Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always thought 8 1/2, rio, acme and friends were more, uh, Amish UIs > than ugly UIs, but to each his or her own. > > -J > >

Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?]

2008-11-20 Thread John Barham
it is trivial. IIRC there is an APE port somewhere in contrib. John

Re: [9fans] How can I boot plan9 on my Compaq AlphaServer DS10L?

2008-12-18 Thread John Waters
I would have opted for the obvious firearms-related solution. :) On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:19 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Nolan Hamilton > wrote: >> Well apparently plan9 runs on alpha, but I can not get plan9 to run on my >> DS10L. Can anyone help? >> > > I can he

[9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread John Floren
hat I may shut down my server for a bit until I figure out what's up. What are my options for getting rid of this? People who run Plan 9 mail servers, what do you do? Thanks John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?

2009-01-10 Thread John Stalker
For what it's worth, bwk awk does not have this problem, so the error must be in code introduced later. > Note the 5946903e318 which AWK may mistakenly treat as a floating > point constant. Now to figure how to prevent such errors... -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity Col

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-13 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, John Floren wrote: > Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons > of "free coupons", "free Dell XPS", "Student loans!" spam, apparently > from one operator, since every domainname is in

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-14 Thread John Floren
I feel a bit silly now... just discovered upas/spam etc. This seems to be catching all of my spam with just the default set of rules, while allowing non-spam through. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, John Floren wrote: > Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons &

Re: [9fans] SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference

2009-01-22 Thread John Waters
I wonder how much flack I would get from Israeli passport control for the stamps in my passport. :) On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > which homie in the hood is going to represent? > > yo > ak > >

Re: [9fans] SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems

2009-01-23 Thread John Waters
Actually, my Business visa to Saudi has me listed as a Muslim in 'Arabic. I could just have been visiting Bait Al Maqdis. :) On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:16 PM, wrote: >> I wonder how much flack I would get from Israeli passport control for >> the stamps in my passport. :) > > What makes you think

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-27 Thread John Waters
> What'd you say if you had my keyboard? I I would say that I need to find some more activities for your key.

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread John Barham
Kenji Arisawa wrote: > Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. > Take a look at http://plan9/remoty/pegasus/eman-2.6/ for more details. Do you have a non-local URL host name?

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread John Barham
o Plan 9? Is there some structural reason why it can't be done or is it just that nobody has done the work yet? Note that I am specifically not asking about "shared" libraries... John

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread John Barham
tool more general. (FWIW, as has been pointed out on this list previously, Inferno applications can dynamically load modules at run-time.) John

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-02-02 Thread John Barham
> using a variant of something we developed and then > re-developed for Inferno, you can dynamically load > C modules at run time, and unusually, with type checking, > with support in the compilers and loaders. Is the code to do this available for public consumption?

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-02-02 Thread John Barham
e. They solve different problems. John

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-10 Thread John Barham
> I've turned it back on and will watch to see if our web server gets > swamped by it. This interface should not be used to mirror the > contents of sources. What interface should be used to used to mirror sources? 9fs? replica? More specifically, if I wanted to set up my own HTTP mirror of sou

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-21 Thread John Waters
I need to think/write up a command that I can name "nph" On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Andrew Simmons wrote: >> by the way, which one's kumar? >> > Kumar is the one with nice pubes. > >

[9fans] Visual font viewer

2009-02-27 Thread John Barham
Is there a program that will render some subset of a font file so that you get a quick feel for what it looks like? John

Re: [9fans] USB mouse doesn't like being unplugged

2009-03-01 Thread John Barham
The only fiddly bit is configuring the Synergy server on Windows where there is a bit of redundancy. See the attached screenshots. AMD is my Windows machine, everex is my Plan 9 box. The synergy server (for Unix, Windows and OS X) can be found at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. John <><>

Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme

2009-03-03 Thread John Stalker
it three times. Then I snarf the lot of them, and paste three times. Then I snarf that and paste three times. Ugly as hell, but it does work. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-03 Thread John Barham
hon). It also looks like it's been (partially?) back-ported to Python 2.4 and 2.5: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing. John

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-03 Thread John Barham
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I should have qualified. I mean *massive* parallelization when applied >> to "average" use cases. I don't think it's totally unusable (I >> complain about synchronous I/O on my phone every day), but it's being >> pushed as a panacea, and tha

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-03 Thread John Barham
> I believe GIL is as present in Python nowadays as ever. On a related > note: does anybody know any sane interpreted languages with a decent > threading model to go along? Stackless python is the only thing that > I'm familiar with in that department. Check out Lua's coroutines: http://www.lua.or

Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme

2009-03-04 Thread John Stalker
bit easier to and more natural to describe some languages in the class. There are sane objections to adding counts, but I don't think this is really one of them. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2009-03-07 Thread John Barham
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.pdf > > I uploaded a slightly updated version to > /n/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.ms and updated the PDF likewise. When > I get more time I will further expand the tutoria

[9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution

2021-02-02 Thread John A.
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Re: [9fans] p9f.org https times out

2021-03-23 Thread John Floren
It's been quite responsive over http; I think the main issue is that people automatically write "https" in links these days and I'm not sure p9f.org ever had HTTPS set up. I remember trying it weeks back when Ron first announced it, wasn't able to connect with HTTPS back t

Re: [9fans] Can compile Plan9 C compiler for windows10?

2021-03-29 Thread John Floren
, but it wasn't a straight-across change and we ended up deciding that since the Go compilers were being maintained specifically to compile Go, it wouldn't be a good idea to hitch our wagon to them lest they make some Go-focused changes which break our stuff. john ---

Re: [9fans] Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation

2021-03-31 Thread John Floren
or what to do about a hypothetical patch rewriting a kernel function that someone mailed to Bell Labs in 2003, well, I don't know. john On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:38 AM wrote: > > Nobody is disgruntled (that we know about). The code under discussion > in Richard Miller's contr

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-27 Thread John Floren
My daily mouse is a Logitech 3-button mouse plugged into a PS2-USB adapter. Obviously they're not making them anymore but I've managed to acquire a bunch over the years. It's sturdy and works fine. https://www.ebay.com/itm/384628597228 john Original Message

Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women

2010-04-18 Thread John Floren
edict. > > > > > > Respectfully The examples you give don't really need a fork of Plan 9, but if you really want to fork it just do it. You don't need permission or anybody's blessing, but if you're looking for somebody to say "Sounds great, where do you want me to start?" you'll probably be waiting a long time, because nobody's going to sign up for a project backed up by nothing but talk. John Floren

Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!)

2010-04-19 Thread John Stalker
7;t like pastel colours and bunnies. But those people aren't on this list, so this is the wrong place to guage their level of interest. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread John Soros
Hello Adriano, Have you disabled all snapshotting features? Usiong open -r? How are you starting fossil, what's your configuration? -- John Soros On Tuesday 20 April 2010 12:45:09 Adriano Verardo wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm building an industrial application hosted by severa

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread John Soros
rson to be asked...I currently don't even have my plan9 system installed. HTH On Tuesday 20 April 2010 13:39:59 Adriano Verardo wrote: > John Soros wrote: > > Hello Adriano, > > Have you disabled all snapshotting features? Usiong open -r? > > How are you starting fo

Re: [9fans] TeX: need feedback

2010-04-26 Thread John Floren
intensively > on "program-to-get-money-to-be-able-to-eat" for now. TeX installed ok, but I couldn't get LaTeX installed; I attempted to follow the instructions in your README, but there was no indication that anything actually worked. Have you installed it on a Plan 9 system? The instructions seemed a lot more Linux-oriented than Plan 9. John

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-27 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM, wrote: > Nice work, but couldn't you just bind /n/sources/plan9/sys/src > to the hg repo and push from there? > That would almost certainly be slower than grabbing the ISO via HTTP and getting the file tree locally. John

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-27 Thread John Floren
that opening, reading, and closing hundreds of small files via 9P would also be much slower than grabbing the same files in a compressed archive via HTTP and uncompressing. Also, I'm not sure of the exact mechanics of hg, but I'm guessing that a commit + push would involve at least two traversals of the tree, which is not fun when you're hitting sources for every file op. John

Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

2010-04-27 Thread John Floren
=cm_cr_pr_product_top My netbook's trackpad is unacceptable for Plan 9 use, and since it doesn't have a PS/2 port I can't plug in one of my old Logitechs. John

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org (Re: BibTex collections of all 4 proceedings)

2010-05-06 Thread John Floren
I think RIT would be willing to host the conference. Plus, I wouldn't have to buy plane tickets :) John

Re: [9fans] Wipe clean, start over

2010-05-16 Thread John Floren
it > finds. but if it's all zeros there you are usually fine. > > ron > > I've also found that, if I don't feel like writing zeroes to the drive, I can instead shift the start/end locations of the fossil and venti partitions by 1, which seems to do the trick as w

Re: [9fans] system call trace version of 9vx available.

2010-05-19 Thread John Floren
gt; > I used strace but don't really care what you call it as long > as it is short!  How about ratrace (Ron's ascii trace)? > I think "ratrace" is a damn fine name, given that it's both "Ron's ASCII trace" and "rat race" John -- "W

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2010-05-21 Thread John Floren
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:08 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, John Floren wrote: >> Hi >> >> So I'm trying to clone a private repository I just created on >> bitbucket. This is what I see: >> >> jerq% hg clone https://@bitbuck

[9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-15 Thread John Floren
ions and suggestions. For my part, I'm trying to find good example filesystems to read (I've been looking at gpsfs, for instance). John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-15 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2010/6/15 John Floren : >> I'm going to be doing some work with 9P and high-latency links this >> summer and fall. I need to be able to test things over a high-latency >> network, but since I may be modifyi

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-16 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2010/6/15 John Floren : >> I'm going to be doing some work with 9P and high-latency links this >> summer and fall. I need to be able to test things over a high-latency >> network, but since I may be modifyi

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-22 Thread John Floren
han it does to copy from a system running a non-modified kernel to go.cs.bell-labs.com (14ms RTT). I'd like to try running the tests with a different latency method. Thanks John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-22 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:07 AM, erik quanstrom >> wrote: >>>> Last time I needed something similar, I just run a modified iostats. >>&

Re: [9fans] megamouse?

2010-06-29 Thread John Floren
er move your hand from the mouse. John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich

Re: [9fans] how to lock cpu console

2010-08-31 Thread John Floren
ac OS X all ask for usernames and passwords when they boot, despite the fact that only the most casual of "attacker" would be put off by that, rather than, say, rebooting with a LiveCD and grabbing your data that way. There's something to be said for deterring casual fiddlers w

Re: [9fans] how to lock cpu console

2010-08-31 Thread John Floren
Don't do this under drawterm, at least not on Windows. It'll gobble your mouse right up, or at least it did mine. Of course, there's no reason to run this in drawterm, since your host OS is certain to have its own screen locker... John On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Federi

Re: [9fans] how to lock cpu console

2010-09-01 Thread John Floren
g at once, have a graphical editor, etc. 4. Full-screen stats is pretty Of course, none of these reasons matter to you, since you don't run rio on your servers AND you don't think there's any reason to lock them (I agree!), I'm just pointing out that graphical lockers and rio in g

[9fans] Laserjet Jetdirect problem

2010-09-01 Thread John Floren
e /rc/bin/service/!tcp515 to tcp515 and try again, 'ps' shows that lots of lpdaemon, generic, lpsend.rc, and lpsend processes get started, and the memory usage slowly climbs and climbs, but nothing ever happens. Anybody else experienced this? John -- "With MPI, familiarity bree

Re: [9fans] how to lock cpu console

2010-09-01 Thread John Floren
/auth/file server is connected to a serial multiplexer, so I don't run rio there. At my university lab, I didn't bother to connect a serial line or a KVM, but the server sits right under my terminal, so I can swap the connectors around and get a physical console if I really need one. Sometim

Re: [9fans] how to lock cpu console

2010-09-01 Thread John Floren
. I already put my account in the adm and sys groups, so I can get just about as much abuse as I want without ever logging in as the hostowner. John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich

Re: [9fans] Laserjet Jetdirect problem

2010-09-02 Thread John Floren
"? Printers have never been my strong point; I'm usually just good enough to get it set up in CUPS :) John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich

Re: [9fans] Laserjet Jetdirect problem

2010-09-02 Thread John Floren
. John On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:09 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >>> prec7   -       p9      tcp!prec7!9100  81920   post+600dpi     generic >>> generic generic generic tcppost >> >> Your spooler is generic but I t

[9fans] plan 9 virtual hosting?

2010-09-07 Thread John Osborne
I've been looking around for virtual hosting for plan 9, and I was wondering if anyone knew of anything besides what's available at freeshell/sdf? Thanks! -- John Osborne osbor...@gmail.com/j...@freeshell.org

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread John Floren
w. why > fmt <>afile > doesn't work?) > > So how? > Can anybody help? (I mean, is there a one-liner?) > Thank you! > Ruda > > Run it through cb before you print it and give cb a length argument. I did basically this same thing just the other day. John -- &

Re: [9fans] anonymous pro -- a programming font

2010-09-09 Thread John Floren
I'd prefer something around 12, I think. John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread John Floren
http://www.livestream.com/iwp9 On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > hi, > > is there a link for live streaming of the conference? i tried to > locate one but couldn't. > > thanks > dharani > >

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread John Floren
I tried it for a few seconds and it worked, don't tell Eric. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, ron minnich wrote: > livestream.com/iwp9 > > I think > > eric won't let me try it. > > ron > >

[9fans] some group photos

2010-10-13 Thread John Floren
They came out kind of fuzzy, I think it's because of the bright light from outside behind us. http://jfloren.net/IWP9group1.jpg http://jfloren.net/IWP9group2.jpg

Re: [9fans] amd64 port

2010-10-13 Thread John Floren
t was primitive because nobody really used it) John On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > ppc64 and amd64 support exists.  the ppc64 port is partial and is > available publically.  It is my understanding that the amd64 is > partial and available to those who ask.

Re: [9fans] some group photos

2010-10-13 Thread John Floren
A new addition from Stephen Jones! http://jfloren.net/eric.jpg On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:22 PM, John Floren wrote: > They came out kind of fuzzy, I think it's because of the bright light > from outside behind us. > > http://jfloren.net/IWP9group1.jpg > http://jfloren.net/IWP9group2.jpg >

Re: [9fans] πp

2010-10-15 Thread John Floren
It is probably worth trying. However, it wouldn't make copying a file from sources any faster, or help a Blue Gene node do a snapshot any quicker. John 2010/10/15 Julius Schmidt : > Perhaps I'm getting this all wrong, but to me this seems like an > interesting idea, especially

Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk

2010-10-27 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Charles Forsyth > wrote: >>>Sorry that wing-commander can't package it for today. >> >> sorry old boy, it wasn't LMF: at first we thought it was a wizard wheeze, >> but one of the sprogs had a prang with

[9fans] What USB audio device are you using?

2010-10-29 Thread John Floren
Here's an open question to anyone using USB audio on Plan 9: What device are you using? How well does it work? I'm looking for something I can get on Amazon; my T22 has been silent long enough! John

Re: [9fans] What USB audio device are you using?

2010-11-02 Thread John Floren
7;s usb and linux has >> the code too.  Audio quality is high, that is until you plug in a mic >> and line-in and line-out signals get mixed. >> >> Btw John, I just got that 'real' 3-button optical logitech-made mouse >> from IBM you'd mentioned.  It beat

Re: [9fans] Plan9 development

2010-11-04 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stanley Lieber wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:39 AM, David Leimbach wrote: >> >> There's a plan9changes google group I believe that will let you see the >> commits that have been going in. > > http://groups.google.com/group/plan9changes/topics > > doesn't show

Re: [9fans] Errors trying to install plan9

2010-11-14 Thread John Floren
ater today. John On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > Hi list! > I've been trying to install plan9 today, on a qemu vm. When trying to > install from local the installer seems unable to find quite a few files in > plan9's src directory. It seems there&#x

Re: [9fans] 9p vs http

2010-11-14 Thread John Floren
Please see lsub's Op and my Streaming talk at the most recent IWP9. Also, regarding 'cat', the behavior of many basic tools is that, barring any file arguments, they take stdin as input and output to stdout, so cat's behavior makes sense to me. On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Sam Watkins wrote

Re: [9fans] 9p vs http

2010-11-14 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:20:00PM -0500, John Floren wrote: >> Please see lsub's Op and my Streaming talk at the most recent IWP9. > > Ok, thanks.  I did not know that 9p has latency problems even when reading a > sing

Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9

2010-11-15 Thread John Floren
urpose of Rerror. If 9P ever has to change again (adding new T-messages), you'll find it a lot easier to interoperate old and new code if we get Rerrors on bogus T-messages. John

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > Seems a little small for a terminal, 4.3" at 480x272 resolution. Maybe I'm > crazy. That's better than what you got on the iPaq, and I found that to be reasonably usable. John

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread John Floren
uot;Grab a pentium from the loading dock" doesn't count! John

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread John Floren
if you need a rundown. Basically, "> Where might I go for a walk thru in setting up a simple plan9 installation one cpu/auth/fs and one terminal?" is answered by "Use the standalone install instructions... and that's basically it." If you'd give us the errors you're seeing from cpu, we might be able to help. "Weird errors" isn't very informative! If it comes down to it, I can exchange some of my config files with you. I have a standalone cpu server running, with PXE boot working. John

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Lloyd Caldwell wrote: > > John, thanks, > >> >> If you follow the standalone CPU installation instructions on the wiki >> to the letter, you will have a cpu/auth/file server. It's then easy to >> export fossil to clients, just

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread John Stalker
exact same setup as the person who wrote whatever I am reading. And I'm never setting out to accomplish the exact same thing. I'm not really asking people to write better howtos. I think the idea is fundamentally broken. What we really need is some less narrative and more expository.

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread John Floren
ne it often enough that I might be able to write a decent document about setting up a standalone server and some terminals with explanations of what needs to be done, followed by actual commands to do it... I think the existing standalone CPU howto document actually does a pretty good job with that, it's just a little hasty/haphazard sometimes. John

Re: [9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users?

2010-12-13 Thread John Stalker
ogram, but MathSciNet gives references in BibTeX format, and this is what journals demand, so I cut and paste. It's been about 7 years since I had a plan9 machine as my main machine for work, and I probably won't go back to that, but if I did then a working version of LaTeX+BibTeX would be a r

[9fans] Streaming 9P is out

2011-01-07 Thread John Floren
ing cp to the repo anyway. Anyway, it's far from perfect, but any comments, patches, or suggestions are appreciated. John

Re: [9fans] Streaming 9P is out

2011-01-08 Thread John Floren
treams, which are for reading OR writing sequentially. I also wanted to give an error if you tried to read from a write stream and vice versa; your stream() doesn't seem to do that. Like I said, it's not perfect, and there's probably a better way to do it. John

Re: [9fans] fs performance

2011-01-09 Thread John Floren
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:29 AM, ron minnich wrote: [snipped] > As John has > pointed out the streaming only makes sense where the inherent network > latency is pretty high (10s of milliseconds), i.e. the wide area. > > ron > > Right, my results were that you get pretty

Re: [9fans] fs performance

2011-01-10 Thread John Floren
P had a *slight* edge over regular 9P at 500 us RTT, but it's very slight. I think at that point the bottleneck was bandwidth rather than latency, and 9P was still able to get RPCs over as quickly as streams. John On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: >

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread John Floren
which you can then connect from a Plan 9 terminal, 9vx on Linux, or drawterm on Linux/OS X/Windows. Personally, I've run at least half a dozen Plan 9 servers over the years, always installing a full cpu/auth/file server, usually on any PC I can scrape together out of the parts bin or

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